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to both the institution and the charity. The amended scheme was scaled and
adopted on the 14th January, 1898.
(d) PAROCHIAL CHARITIES.
Under the provisions of the Local Government Act of 1894, the Shoreditch Vestry
are empowered with the sanction of the Charity Commissioners to appoint additional
trustees on parochial non-ecclesiastical charities, upon the management of which
there are no representatives directly appointed by the rate payers. After
communication with the Charity Commissioners upon the subject the Vestry were
requested to name the Charities for which they desired to appoint additional trustees,
and on the 20th April, 1897, I was instructed to submit the following list of such
Charities:—The Metropolitan North-Eastern Hospital, Aske's Charity, Shoreditch
New Almshouses, Shoreditch Exhibition Fund, and Christ's Hospital. The Charity
Commissioners replied on the 13th November, 1897, expressing the opinion that the
Metropolitan Hospital itself was not a parochial charity, but that Jackson's
Shoreditch Hospital, by which twelve beds in the Hospital are maintained, and
confined to Shoreditch patients, was a parochial charity within the meaning of the
act, and consequently one for which the Vestry was entitled to appoint additional
trustees. The Commissioners also thought that the Shoreditch New Almshouses and
the Shoreditch Exhibition Fund were also parochial charities, but that the NorthEastern
Hospital, Christ's Hospital and the Hoxton School (Aske's) charities were
non-parochial charities. The Parliamentary Committee upon this recommended the
Vestry to ask leave to appoint three additional trustees for Jackson's Charity, three
for the Shoreditch Exhibition Fund, of which there were at present ten trustees,
and one for the Shoreditch New Almshouses, of which there were at present three
trustees.
This course was approved by the Vestry and I applied to the Charity Commissioners
accordingly, but on the 26th April, 1898, they expressed opinion that as
to the Shoreditch Exhibition Fund it would be convenient if only two additional
governors were appointed by the Vestry, and one for the New Almshouses, but
that with respect to the Jackson's Hospital Charity the Charity Commissioners
thought that the provisions of Section 14, sub-Section 8 of the Local Government
Act of 1894 precluded the Vestry from appointing additional trustees on the ground
that forty years had not elapsed from the foundation of this Charity. The necessary
decision of the Board with respect to the Shoreditch Exhibition Fund and the New
Almshouses is in course of preparation.
(e) STANDING ORDERS AND BYE-LAWS.
The Bye-laws and standing orders of the Vestry originally revised on the
21st June, were only in force for six months, to test their working and the Parliamentary
Committee proceeded to revise them on the instructions of the Vestry, and
made certain alterations therein, suggested by the expediency of their working. The
Bye-laws and standing orders as so revised were approved by the Vestry and sealed
on the 18th May, 1897, and a copy of them will be found in the Vestrymen's Pocket
Book.